I don’t know. Assuming zombie-ism is translated via bite, I think it would be pretty hard for a zombie to get through an alligator’s skin. I suppose maybe a zombie being eaten face-first might be able to bite the tongue, but that seems pretty unlikely. Think about it. You could probably bite another person, even one who didn’t want to be bitten. Want to try biting an alligator?

I think this calls for a return to alligator-filled moats around castles, and I like the sound of that.

Like vampirism? The contemporary zombies I remember (even the annoying fast ones) spread like an infectious disease via blood/mucous contact of all (grisly) sorts. So yeah, eating a zombie wouldn’t be the healthiest.

But I haven’t been paying too much attention to the latest zombie fashions either.

Did anyone ever actually fill a moat with alligators? I imagine that the availability of alligators and the military usefulness of castles with moats didn’t overlap much.

On the other hand, crocodiles were more available, and I’ve never heard of a real moat filled with them either. Maybe it’s just that they don’t actually make a moat much more dangerous compared to the difficulty of crossing it while being shot at…

Exactly! That’s what inspired my original post and this new video series. The lack of predation/scavenging by wildlife on zombies is a big, glaring plot hole in The Walking Dead. Some zombie mythologies deal with it by having the animals turn into zombies. Others say that animals avoid toxic zombie flesh. In the Walking Dead, we DID see dogs eating an immobile zombie, but that’s it. Otherwise, the show hasn’t addressed it, so we thought we’d have some fun with the question to raise some awareness of how awesome wild animals are and to promote the National Wildlife Federation.